Dr. Aubrey Samost-Williams Awarded k12 Grant

Dr. Aubrey Samost-Williams was awarded a K12 grant to support her research with Dr. Eric Thomas.

The K12 program of the Center for Clinical and Translation Sciences and the Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care provides career development awards to outstanding early-career faculty members who aspire to become future leaders in clinical or translational research. It is a joint program between UT Houston and MD Anderson. The grants provide 2 years of funding for completion of a clinical or translational trial under the mentorship of senior clinical scientists.

Dr. Samost-Williams’s research will be on assessing the impact of a semi-structured intraoperative anesthesia handoff tool on surgical patient complications and the mediating effects of the perioperative team shared mental model on these outcomes. This project will build on her prior experiences studying intraoperative handoff work systems and perioperative teamwork to provide safer care to our surgical patients.

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